‘Calamity,’ ‘The Physics of Sorrow,’ ‘Schooom’s Odyssey,’ Top 2020 Online Annecy Festival

Emilio Mayorga Maybe Movies’ “Zombillenium” and ”Champions,” from Spain’s Morena and Películas Pendelton, feature among 90 series lined up to participate at this year’s Cartoon Forum which is scheduled to take place on site in France’s Toulouse over Sept. 14-17.France’s Maybe Movies, producers of “Calamity,” this year’s Annecy Cristal best feature winner, along with 2 Minutes will adapt “Zombillenium,” a 2017 feature directed by Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord.

Isha Sesay and Idris Elba have launched The Survivors Solidarity Fund to raise money for survivors of sexual assault in Sierra Leone. The fund was created after the horrific June 17 rape and murder of 5 year oldKadijah Saccoh in the West African country.

Syrian diaspora in Europe are playing Sunday in the 24th friendship concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, this year at the Paestum archaeological site in southern Italy, but the coronavirus pandemic blocked others from arriving directly from Syria.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez teamed up with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor of Schools Richard A. Carranza on Tuesday to celebrate New York City students at a special virtual graduation ceremony.

COVID-19 has greatly affected the film festival world in 2020. Many events have been canceled, some went online, and for the fall fests, we don’t really know what’s going to happen yet.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentOdessa Young (“Shirley,” “Assassination Nation,” “A Million Little Pieces”), Josh O’Connor (“The Crown,” “Emma,” “Gods Own Country”), Olivia Colman (“The Favourite,” “The Crown”) and Colin Firth (“1917,” “A Single Man,” “The King’s Speech”) will star in “Mothering Sunday” for director Eva Husson (“Girls of the Sun,” “Bang Gang – A Modern Love Story”).

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rising actress Odessa Young (Assassination Nation), BAFTA-nominee Josh O’Connor (The Crown), Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Oscar-winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) are set to star in drama Mothering Sunday for Carol producers Number 9 Films.The blue chip period-drama becomes one of the hottest UK projects at the Cannes virtual market where Rocket Science is launching world sales.Eva Husson (Girls Of The Sun) will direct from

Pink as a pop of bubblegum and only a little more substantial, Magnus von Horn’s “Sweat,” one of the Cannes 2020 Official Selections that plays during this week’s Cannes Virtual Market is, despite all the cardio, a curiously low-blood-pressure affair.

Slated to be the biggest dance music livestream to happen yet during quarantine, Electric Blockaloo has announced that it's postponing the event for two weeks and also changing its name to Rave Family Block Fest.

Variety staff pick 10 short films screening at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, either from competition or from the event’s multiple prestigious sidebars, which attendees should take care not to miss.This year, with the entirety of the short film competition on the festival’s digital platform, animation fans from almost anywhere in the world can count themselves among attendees for the cost of a €15 ($16.87) accreditation.France is, predictably, well represented on this year’s

Amidst the pandemic, the standard music festival settings of open fields, wooded forests and sprawling parking lots have been sitting empty and quiet. But social distancing has indeed led to innovation,

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentWith Dutch theaters now reopening, IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has confirmed it will host a physical 33rd edition in November with potentially reduced capacity. The industry markets IDFA Forum and Docs for Sale, however, will take place online.Movies competing at IDFA will have their premieres in over 60 theaters throughout the Netherlands with international juries on hand.

Heather Graham is enjoying the sun and sand amid the COVID-19 lockdown in California. The Austin Powers actress, 50, shared a smiling photo alongside pal Odessa Rae on Monday, that showed them standing near the ocean. “Today feels like the first day of summer,” she captioned the photo from their “beach day,” adding a sun and wave emojis.

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival which happens around May every year was cancelled this year owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Indian celebrities like , , and others who usually walk the red carpet for brands also did not get to put down their best fashionable foot forward.